Nachman Malkiel

Nachman Malkliel is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Malkiel obtained both his B.Sc. Degree (2018, summa cum laude) and his Ph.D. (2023, Direct track) from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion. During 2023-2025,he was a post-doctoral research associate with the Ultrasonic and Non-Destructive Testing group at University of Bristol, UK.

Dr. Malkiel’s main research interest include uncertainty in structural elements and stochastic analyis of structural behavior, ultrasonic inspections for safety critical elements and their reliability assessment, wave propagation in advanced and uncertain materials, and the characterization of such materials by ultrasound technologies.

Uncertainty in structural elements

Stochastic analyis of structural behavior

Ultrasonic inspections for safety critical elements and their reliability assessment

Wave propagation in advanced and uncertain materials

Characterization of advanced material and their uncertianty by ultrasound technologies

ACADEMIC DEGREES
• Ph.D., direct track, 2018-2024, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Prof. Oded Rabinovitch.
• Master, for completing the requirements for master’s degree during the Ph.D. studies, 2018-2020, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Prof. Oded Rabinovitch.
• B.Sc., (Summa cum Laude) in Civil Engineering – Structures, 2014-2018, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
• 2023-2025, Research Associate, School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol
• 2025-present, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS
• 2024, ECCOMAS Award for Best PhD Thesis, Nominee
• 2023-2025, The Technion UK Post-Doctoral Fellowship
• 2024, Shulamit and Tuvia Netzer Award for Research in Structural Analysis
• 2023, Faculty’s Excellency Scholarship, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• 2023, Excellence in Teaching Award, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• 2018, B.Sc. Summa Cum Laude, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• 2014-2017, President’s List of honors, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
• 2016, Etanit Building Products LTD Award for the highest grade in “Building Materials”
• 2015, Moshe Shnabel Award for Creativity and Excellence in Civil and Environmental Engineering (participant), for a Water Supply Project as part of Engineers Without Borders Activity.
• 2015, President’s List of honors, while taking a few undergraduate courses in mathematics and physics, The Open University of Israel.
• 2014-2015, Dean’s List of honors, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

1. Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O., Elishakoff, I. (2021), Exact solutions for stochastic Bernoulli-Euler beams under deterministic loading, Acta Mechanica, 232(6), pp. 2201–2224.
2. Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O. (2021), Stochastic cohesive interface analysis of layer debonding, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 226-227, 111081.
3. Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O. (2022), Uncertainty in debonding of layered structures with adhesive layers, European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids, 93, 104507.
4. Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O. (2022), Dynamic buckling-driven delamination of thin films, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 272, 108691.
5. Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O. (2023), Stochastic delamination processes – a comparative analysis, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 267, 112159.
6. Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O. (2023), Uncertainty in the flexural behavior of soft-core sandwich beams, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 90(7), 071008.
7. Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O. (2024), Nonlinear Stochastic Behavior of Soft-Core Sandwich Panels. Composite Structures, 33815, 118085.
8. Azarov, B., Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O. (2024), High order analysis of debonding failure of orthodontic brackets. Composite Structures, International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, 138, 103896.
9. Malkiel, N., Rabinovitch, O. (2025), Nonlinear stochastic evolution of spatial uncertainty along the process axis, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 175, 105125.
10. Malkiel, N., Croxford, A., Wilcox, P.D., (2025), A Generalized Method for the Reliability Assessment of Safety-Critical Inspections, Proceeding of the Royal Society A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 481, 20240654.